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"Does anybody know a widely used and open source project using literate programming? (Edit: please include only programs expressed "as a web of ideas" that Knut
by bootload 10y ago
"Does anybody know a widely used and open source project using literate programming? (Edit: please include only programs expressed "as a web of ideas" that Knuth mentions - apparently otherwise it's not literate programming, just loads of inline documentation?)"
Funny you ask this, I ran across a @raganwald post mentioning a great example of ^literate programming^ (mixing code and documentation), "Literate CoffeeScript" [0]. You can read about how CoffeeScript does this at http://coffeescript.org http://coffeescript.org
[0] blog post: http://raganwald.com/2013/03/27/literate-coffeescript.coffee.html http://raganwald.com/2013/03/27/literate-coffeescript.coffee...
[1] raw text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raganwald/raganwald.github.com/master/_posts/2013-02-27-literate-coffeescript.litcoffee.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raganwald/raganwald.github...